Call for Papers
Founded in 1961 by A.S. Hornby, the A.S. Hornby Educational Trust have been supporting English language teachers from around South Globe to come to the UK and do a master’s degree in one of the top-ranking universities since 1971. There are currently more than 400 Hornby Alumni in different parts of the world, and the Trust is now helping the alumni to connect through building the alumni community. In endeavour to support this process, the organising committee of the very first Hornby Alumni conference is happy to announce the call for proposals.
The conference aims to:
- bring Hornby alumni together to celebrate their belonging to the alumni community
- give alumni an opportunity to exchange English language teaching experiences and success stories from their prospective countries
- foster connections and strengthen relationships among alumni from various cohorts
- provide a platform to share research/project outcomes with colleagues around the world
- encourage meaningful discussions on a broad range of topics of shared interest.
The conference will include a range of strands with talks on different topics.
We welcome speaker proposals on one of the following areas:
- your story of winning and running a project funded by the A.S.Hornby Educational Trust with details of the project’s outcomes (this can be a Alumni Award project or Teacher Association project)
- an impact/change that you were able to make to your professional context upon return to your country after completing MA in the UK (you could share any of your reflective stories on achievements such as establishing a community of practice, or changing the way you teach, activity that you engage in as an agent of change, etc.)
- a completed or ongoing research project in your context, or you could also consider sharing insights from your dissertation research project you conducted while studying MA in the UK as a Hornby scholar
- your ELT related initiative (either in the stage of planning or already ongoing) that you would like to invite other alumni to join (your presentation will help you find colleagues from other parts of the world who could be interested in working together with you)
Selected participants will be invited to present a 15-minute talk at the conference followed by a 5-minute Q&A session.
There will also be asynchronous components with pre-recorded sessions accessible from 5th June, the discussions of which will be during the live sessions of the conference.
Important dates:
15 April 2025 – Speaker proposal submission deadline
1 May 2025 – Notification of acceptance
5 June 2025 – Pre-recorded presentations will be made available for public
6-7 June 2025 – The online conference
1 July 2025 – Full paper submission for proceedings
Please submit your speaker proposal form online here.